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Author Description <b>Silvina Ocampo Aguirre</b> was a poet and short-fiction writer.<br /><br />Ocampo was the youngest of the six children of Manuel Ocampo and Ramona Aguirre. One of her sisters was <a href="https://www.goodreads.com/author/show/63675.Victoria_Ocampo" title="Victoria Ocampo" rel="nofollow noopener">Victoria Ocampo</a>, the publisher of the literarily important Argentine magazine <i>Sur</i>.<br /><br />Silvina was educated at home by tutors, and later studied drawing in Paris under Giorgio de Chirico. She was married to Adolfo Bioy Casares, whose lover she became (1933) when Bioy was 19. They were married in 1940. In 1954 she adopted Bioy’s daughter with another woman, Marta Bioy Ocampo (1954-94) who was killed in an automobile accident just three weeks after Silvina Ocampo’s death.

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